This Won’t Go Down on Your Permanent Record
If you’re concerned that your kids will be adversely affected by at-home schooling, here’s why you can stop worrying.
Are You Just Wasting Time with Your Content?
Whether you’re creating content for your blog, social media, or anything else, you’re likely wasting a lot of time if you don’t have a content marketing plan.
What Are Your Words Really Saying?
Tips for Better Communication The first time I met my husband, I fell for his eyes, the sound of his laugh, the way he gestured excitedly when talking politics. But what really sealed the deal for me was the two-word text he sent me later that night. Those two words...
Is Your Social Media Footprint Cringeworthy?
How to Clean Up Your Profiles and Protect Your Reputation Editor’s Note: This post is intended to provide guidance to those who want to keep their social media activity or history private from prospective employers, or they want to update profiles after graduation or...
6 Reasons You Don’t Get Followed Back
If your mama always told you to be a leader, not a follower, she may have given you the wrong idea about social media. It’s not necessarily bad to follow accounts--or even to follow back accounts. Social media is designed for engagement, communication, fun, and an...
9 Tips for Raising Tech-Smart Kids
How much exposure and freedom should you give your children with technology and social media? When used for the right purposes, technology is a tool for good. It can connect us to the rest of the world. It can teach us about nature and show us the far ends of the...
Child’s Play: Start Kids Using, Respecting Technology Early
When I’ve told other moms that I write about technology and work in social media, they sometimes ask when I let my kids have phones and how I handle social media with them. What are the rules? What do I allow? What do I recommend? As a parent, you probably know your...
5 Ways to Do Good in 5 Minutes or Less
We’re All Responsible for Making the Internet a Better Place Ever wandered innocently into the comment section of nearly any social post or online community? If you spend more than a few minutes on social media, you’re bound to see something that bugs you. Good people...
Show Off the Real You Online
Build Your Online Reputation Like You Build Your Credit History How do you view your online reputation? Do you embrace it or do you fear it? I am often asked by newbies and business owners if social networking is a necessarily evil from which they should hide as much...
How to Survive a Social Media Mishap
Life is messy. It is full of embarrassments, faux pas, and bad decisions. When those mistakes happen online, they get cached, screen captured, and ridiculed. It doesn’t matter whether your slip is private or professional because your online persona cannot be...